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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude — Anthropic announced on Friday that it's launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude.
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LinkedIn: Mary Aguililla, Amol Avasare, Drew Bent, Tom Wentworth, Gianluca Brugnoli, Pradeep Sanyal, and Claude. Bluesky: @isolyth.dev. Threads: @claudeai
Forums: Hacker News and r/ClaudeAI
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI, along with Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI's CTO of enterprise applications — OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots. Kevin Weil, who led the company's science research initiative, and Bill Peebles … | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered — The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.
More: The Information, CNBC, Bloomberg, and The Verge
X: @kevinweil and @zeffmax
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/singularity, and r/OpenAI
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised $500M+ — Group founded by former engineers at DeepMind and OpenAI secures $4bn valuation in deal with Google's venture arm and Nvidia
More: Implicator.ai and Neowin
| Politico: |
Cyber experts say the EU's age verification app has glaring privacy and security problems; after saying it was ready, EU officials say the app is “still a demo” — BRUSSELS — The European Union's unveiling of a mobile app to check people's age online has quickly turned sour …
More: Washington Post, The Economic Times, Biometric Update, Blaze Media, MediaNama, Cointelegraph, and Wired
Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social, @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone, and @andrewducker@mastodon.scot
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/europe, r/privacy, and r/eutech
| Axios: |
White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been “productive and constructive”; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined a meeting on Friday between White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles …
More: The Hill, Fox News, Reuters, Bloomberg Law, CNBC, Politico, UPI, Quartz, Blockonomi, NewsMax.com, New York Post, Washington Examiner, and Financial Times
X: @benbrodydc and @marcacaputo
| Reuters: |
Sources: Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees — Meta (META.O) intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, with more coming later …
More: San Francisco Chronicle, The Information, Dow Jones Newswires, New York Post, Hindustan Times, and ZeroHedge News
X: @rihardjarc. Bluesky: @jeffhorwitz. Threads: @benedictevans. Forums: r/BayAreaRealEstate and r/technology
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations — Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cerebras files to go public on Nasdaq and reports $510M in 2025 revenue, up 76% YoY, with a net income of $87.9M, up from a $485M net loss in 2024 — Cerebras, a producer of chips that run artificial intelligence models, on Friday filed to go public on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “CBRS.”
More: Bloomberg, PitchBook, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Reuters
| The Guardian: |
Docs: US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide data centers' environmental toll; one of their demands was written almost verbatim into EU rules — Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups
More: Investigate Europe, TheJournal.ie, Implicator.ai, U.S. Catholic, AlgorithmWatch, Bloomberg, and Politico
Bluesky: @troublemakers, @p4bl0.net, @nhna, @osma.fishpool.org, and @ramiismail.com
Forums: Hacker News, r/europe, r/BuyFromEU, r/Environmentalism, and r/climate
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A deep dive into Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Jensen Huang, including Huang's takes on Nvidia's moat and chip sales to China, and reactions to the interview — Some podcasts are self-recommending on the 'yep, I'm going to be breaking this one down' level. This was one of those. So here we go.
More: FuTu News, The Economic Times, Transformer, South China Morning Post, and Dwarkesh Podcast
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some shareholders are questioning whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have floated Bret Taylor as a successor — Ahead of a planned IPO, Altman's personal investments remain opaque, making it hard to spot any conflicts| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Cursor is in advanced talks to raise about $2B co-led by a16z at a pre-money valuation of more than $50B, with Nvidia participating — Cursor, a leading artificial intelligence startup for coding, is in advanced talks with investors to raise about $2 billion in a funding round …
More: The Information, TechCrunch, Motley Fool, and Yahoo Finance
| Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Kraken parent company Payward agrees to acquire Bitnomial, a digital asset derivatives platform, for up to $550M in cash and stock, which values Payward at $20B — The deal gives Payward control of a fully licensed U.S. crypto derivatives stack, accelerating its expansion in regulated markets.
More: Kraken Blog, The Information, crypto.news, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, Benzinga, Bitcoin News, Decrypt, Bitcoin Magazine, The Block, Blockonomi, DL News, Coinpedia Fintech News, and The Defiant
LinkedIn: Brandon Faulkner and Saurabh Sharma
| Reuters: |
India drops a proposal to require Apple, Google, Samsung, and other smartphone makers to preinstall the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones — India's government has decided not to go ahead with a proposal to require Apple (AAPL.O), Samsung (005930.KS) … | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification — Honestly, what's hotter than a real person? — Sam Altman's iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event …
More: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, DL News, The Verge, Decrypt, TechRadar, CoinDesk, BBC, Axios, TheGrio, The Block, The Deep View, and Implicator.ai
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @paularmstrongtbd, @brbarrett, and @katie-drummond. Forums: Slashdot
| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
An interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative around AI is dominant because the industry hasn't yet fully delivered the benefits it promises — The tech entrepreneur on Claude Mythos, repercussions from the Pentagon dispute — and his message for the super-rich
More: Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Crypto Briefing, Implicator.ai, and Washington Examiner
Bluesky: @davelee.me and @benbraun
| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Charles Schwab unveils its long-awaited crypto investing product, Schwab Crypto, with a 0.75% fee on every crypto trade and plans to launch in the coming weeks — Charles Schwab on Thursday introduced its long-awaited crypto investing product, making bitcoin and ether trading available …
More: Business Wire, DL News, NewsBTC, Unchained, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, The Daily Upside, Crypto Briefing, and Dallas Business Journal
LinkedIn: Nicole Orlov and Leah Sorrentino
| Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: |
A profile of wealth manager Iconiq, which, sources say, has $100B AUM, with $26B specifically for VC investing; Iconiq invested $3B into AI startups in 2025 — Last year, Anthropic PBC chief Dario Amodei and a handful of executives traveled 8,000 miles from San Francisco to the Middle East.
LinkedIn: Matthew Jacobson and Natasha Mascarenhas
| Financial Times: |
SynMax: almost 40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays; major projects for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others are likely to end over three months late — Delays to a swath of new US data centres threaten to slow the rollout of AI by the world's biggest tech companies …
More: Ars Technica, PYMNTS.com, Tom's Hardware, Platformonomics, Crypto Briefing, and Pulse 2.0
| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape — - Elon Musk's AI company xAI plans to allow Cursor to use some of its compute power for training.
More: XDA Developers. X: @chribjel, @edzitron, @emilheap, @cryptopunk7213, @charlesd353, @tunguz, @chrishayduk, @tekbog, @nofil_ai, @luke_metro, and @beffjezos. Forums: r/accelerate
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data — Bluesky's website and app are still struggling on Friday after experiencing service interruptions that chief operating officer Rose Wang attributed to an ongoing cyberattack.| Krystal Scanlon / Digiday: |
Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch — Advertising in ChatGPT is already getting cheaper. The rate advertisers pay to reach every thousand users has fallen from $60 … | Martin Peers / The Information: |
In disclosures due to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan's presence on the Meta board, Meta says it paid Broadcom $2.3B in 2025; Tan is leaving the board — Meta Platforms paid Broadcom $2.3 billion in 2025, Meta disclosed in a securities filing, a rare disclosure of how much tech firms pay Broadcom for help designing their AI chips.
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